The young Kindle look bang-up : Simple , functional , and pretty . It looks like Amazon got a few cluesfrom Apple and Braun ’s aim guidelines . But does it comply with Dieter Rams ’ 10 regulation for undecomposed design ?
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Dieter Rams is the blueprint guru who was responsible for some of the most amazing product designing of the twentieth 100 , while he was function at Braun . He and his 10 rules of good design are one of the prominent influences of Jon I ve , the head of design at Apple . Here are the 10 rule :
Good design is forward-looking .
It ’s hardly to be innovative when your intersection is an organic evolution of a premature generation . The first Kindle , though esthetically ugly , was advanced . The Modern Kindle 2 does n’t innovate anything new from the previous generation or similar mathematical product .
Fail .
expert aim makes a product useful .
The fresh keys , both the orotund unity on the keyboard and the one on the sides , seem a lot good than the old ones . I would have preferred a full touch user interface , since schoolbook input is not that important and it would simplify the user interface to the minimal formulation : A dim-witted white , thin slate with a screen . However , I imagine there are price and cover - legibility constrains that make this out of the question .
Pass .
undecomposed excogitation is aesthetic .
The wide-eyed white , the position of the key , the Al back , the tenuity … perchance you think the new Kindle wait great because the one-time one calculate like crap , but the Kubrick ’s 2001’ish design is pretty on its own .
Good design help us to interpret a product .
The new Kindle is easy to understand . Anyone would be capable to envision it out by just holding in their hand . Not as easy as figuring out how to interpret a genuine book , but good enough for a piece of electronics .
honorable design is unobtrusive .
It also pass this trial . The screen , which holds the object of interestingness , is the centrepiece , the focus of the production . The design does n’t get in the elbow room of its objective , to let you show . Still it ’s not as unobtrusive as a paper book , but as good as it can get this side of a pure touchscreen product .
We still have to try the new 5 - elbow room accountant , however , and see how it lives up to the claim of enabling exact navigation and text option . With the scroll bicycle gone , a touch or penitentiary port would have been the more instinctive way to perform these functions .
dear design is reliable .
No shiver , no ruffle , no stilted ornaments . This product come naked , as it is , as honest as it can get .
Good intent is durable .
look at ourhands on , the drop testat Amazon ’s product Sir Frederick Handley Page , and the former genesis , it looks like the fresh Kindle is a solid product . in reality , that aluminum back makes it look like it is even more solid .
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Good design is consequent to the last item .
Its coherence is unclouded in the whole ironware designing , although we have n’t seen many of the other detail yet , like the appurtenance and the publicity .
Pass ( pending the last hands on . )
Good design is concerned with the surround .
Although we have n’t feel any selective information about the materials used in the Kindle and its packaging , this has to be one of the greenest ware there is . Whatever they use for defecate them , it ’s outweighed by the saving on trees , chemical , and H2O used in the production of genuine volume , printed on both new and recycled paper .
just intent is as little design as possible .
Again , the excogitation of the Kindle 2.0 is as minimalist as it can get work against the limitation of not having a touchscreen .
While it does n’t pass all the rule , overall the new Kindle ’s blueprint is a winner . It look good , it ’s as bare as it can get with the current technology - toll limitation , and it just work .
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